EU threatens year-long delay in Brexit talks over UK's negotiating stance

Exclusive: May to be told it would take 12 months to draft new mandate if she insists on discussing trade and divorce bill at same timeTheresa May is to be told the EU will take a year to draft a new mandate for its chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, effectively killing the Brexit negotiations, if she insists on discussing a future trade relationship at the same time as the UK’s divorce bill.In a sign of growing impatience with the shambolic state of the British side of the talks, senior EU